Jesse Thompson is a reporter with the ABC's Melbourne newsroom who generally focuses on the housing sector. Before moving to Melbourne, he covered Northern Territory politics from Darwin, as well as working for the ABC in Cairns and Alice Springs.
An inquiry into a series of landslides on the Mornington Peninsula, just outside Melbourne has heard multiple theories as to what caused them. Several theories involve water damage throughout the hillside neighbourhood.
The owners of a home destroyed during a landslide on Victoria's Mornington Peninsula have given evidence about how their daughter came close to being seriously injured or killed during an earlier, smaller landslip.
A hearing has begun into the January landslide that destroyed a luxury home and injured a council worker on the Mornington Peninsula.
Homeowners who say their complaints to the Victorian Building Authority failed to materially improve their situation, are now calling on the state government to provide compensation.
Federal minister Clare O'Neil says the Victorian government has to explain its funding needs beyond the $2 billion it has promised for the state's $34.5 billion rail loop project.
Amid a housing crisis, a social housing complex in Melbourne's south-east sits empty for more than six months — and was broken into and vandalised — after residents were suddenly relocated to make way for a redevelopment.
A man who oversaw the construction of a concrete seawall in front of his beachfront mansion without a permit has vowed to tear it down and rehabilitate the section of beach it was built on.
Apartment living is a key pillar of government plans to ease the housing crisis by densifying well-connected parts of Australia's largest cities. But some have questioned the viability of the plans, saying the current stock of apartments was poorly suited for families.
Court documents have revealed Victorian Building Authority employees were offered bribes to progress builder registration applications. Dozens of builders have now been charged.
Freedom of Information documents show inspectors from Victoria's building watchdog identified dozens of potential issues in an affordable housing block months before the state government finalised its sale.
After a $2 million property lay in a splintered heap near the foot of a Mornington Peninsula hill on Tuesday, questions have been raised about the long-term viability of home lending and insurance for hilltop neighbourhoods.
A $5.3 billion fund — billed as the nation's largest-ever investment by a state government in social housing — was rolled out in Victoria four years ago. Now questions are being asked about where the money's being spent.
Nelson Alexander says information related to 89 historical tenancies was allegedly stolen from its office in the city's inner-north last month.
The man who allegedly helped Isla Bell's accused murderer dispose of the missing Melbourne teenager's body has been granted bail, subject to strict conditions.
The family of 19-year-old Isla Bell say they are trying to process the "unimaginable" after her remains were believed to have been found at a Melbourne tip.
Tenants of a unique government-backed affordable housing development allege belongings have been stolen and knee-deep rubbish is piling up amid a rotating door of property managers.
Ricardo Barbaro stabbed 26-year-old mother Ellie Price in her South Melbourne apartment before fleeing interstate.
The state's building regulator has been exposed for failing to hold builders to account, prompting the government to replace the VBA with a new regulator with greater powers.
Youth crime has risen to its highest level in more than a decade, driven by a rise in car thefts and burglaries, according to new Victorian crime statistics.
A Melbourne university has been asked to explain itself after suggesting it could forcibly acquire a group of apartments to expand its campus if their owners didn't agree to sell.
Teenagers in England and Wales are twice as likely to be killed by a knife now than they were 10 years ago and as violent knife crime continues to rise the UK takes measures like a buy-back scheme similar to Australia's after the Port Arthur massacre.
The daughter of murdered camper Carol Clay has told the Supreme Court of Victoria how her mother's death haunts her, in a pre-sentence hearing for Greg Lynn.
A council in Melbourne's west knew it could be making up to 50 people homeless when it ordered them to leave an affordable housing estate last year and contemplated not offering them any assistance at all, according to internal documents obtained by the ABC.
A major Melbourne health service has admitted to failures in the lead-up to the death of patient eight-year-old Amrita Lanka in April 2022.
Rent for the vast majority of public housing tenants in Victoria is capped according to income, but advocates say sharp increases in market rents before rebates are applied are causing confusion and concern.